Patrick, Technically, this will work assuming all the definitions are set up.
However, it is not a good practice and it is not recommended by BMC. The highest volume connection in the system is the connection between the AR System server and the database. We have found that ANYTHING and that means ANYTHING that is between the AR System server and the database has a dramatic affect on overall performance. Things work, but just much slower. If there is a firewall or a router or a WAN or anything at all other than a wire with backplane speeds, the overall performance and throughput of the system suffers. As was noted by another poster, you may see things like startup of the system go from 2 minutes to 40 minutes. You may find that retrieval of lists of 10s and especially 100s of items take 5, 10, or even more times longer (not percent, but times). The question is why you would set up a configuration like this? Why not both servers located close to the database and then go remote from there? This puts a significantly lower bandwidth of traffic on the network (order of magnitude ore more less) to go remote from AR System server to client than from AR System server to database. It is also more flexible because the AR System server to client connection has retries and auto reconnect and is connectionless so things going up and down are immaterial and invisible while the AR System server to database is connection oriented, is stateful, and has minimal auto-retry, auto-reconnect options (essentially, the AR System server goes down with the loss of the connection and then starts up and tries to connect to the DB on startup and if the startup went to 30 minutes or more, that means a line hiccup generates an outage. Some things to think about. Doug Mueller ________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of patrick zandi Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 2:44 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Server Group -- not co located ** Any issue with running a server group with Server 01 is in Ohio - Database here Server 02 is in Nebraska Connected to Database in Ohio OC-3 minimum connection Anyone see any issues with this ? P.S I know Nebraska would win the football game.. that is a no brainer. -- Patrick Zandi -- Patrick Zandi _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
